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1. Bottoms up: Usually the Florida-Georgia game in Jacksonville, billed as the World's Largest Cocktail party, has East Division title implications. This Saturday, since Georgia and Florida each already have two SEC losses with one of those each to East front-runner one-league loss Missouri, the glow is off this matchup. So which team needs to win this game more?

It has to be Florida, which has a two-game losing streak to the Bulldogs after going 18-3 vs. Georgia from 1990-2010. Georgia hasn't won three straight in this series since 1987. On the surface, Georgia, with a vastly better offense, should roll over the Gators. But stranger things have happened in this game. If Florida's offense can get as creative as some of the fans trying to sneak booze into the stadium - my favorite was the year at this game that an enterprising fan wrapped surgical tubing around him filled with his preferred bourbon and corked at each end - then Will Muschamp's boys have got a shot.

2. Lovin' those Vols: South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier is hoping Tennessee, usually Darth Visor's favorite one-liner punching bag, can do to Missouri what Tennessee did to South Carolina a couple of weeks ago in a 23-21 Vols' victory. Carolina needs to win its last two conference games and needs one more loss each by Missouri and Georgia loss to advance to the SEC championship game.

You'd think Mizzou would have the edge on Saturday, because it is at home and the fact Tennessee hasn't won a road SEC game outside the state borders since the last regular season game of the 2009 season. Take away Tennessee's 2010 win at Vanderbilt in Nashville, and the Vols have lost 13 straight SEC road games away from the Volunteer State. Saturday's game in Columbia is mostly about mental attitude. Which team can bounce back from last weekend's losses? Missouri, watching its undefeated season disappear after blowing a 10-point fourth-quarter lead and losing at home in overtime to South Carolina? Or Tennessee, getting trucked in a 45-10 loss at No. 1 Alabama?

3. Bret Bielema, film critic: First-year Arkansas coach Bret Bielema, whose team scored seven fewer points during last week's open date than it did the previous two weeks losing to South Carolina and Alabama by a combined 104-7, is whining about Auburn's film editor. The Tigers and the Razorbacks meet Saturday in Fayetteville, and Bielema said Monday that the game tape sent to Arkansas from Auburn of the Tigers' 45-10 victory over Florida Atlantic last Saturday doesn't match a TV copy that Arkansas had.

"On the TV copy, they have a swinging gate at the beginning of the play, which obviously happened," Bielema said. "It was on the TV copy. And when we got the video copy from them today, that exact same play doesn't show any of the gate.... So, if I hadn't watched the TV copy, or if our guys hadn't had the time to go back and review, we would have never known that to happen." Wow! This just in: One SEC coach tries to slick another. Welcome to the SEC, Bret. You might try looking at your own game film to see how your rapidly sinking offense can locate the end zone more often than just twice in the last three games.

SEC+ Best backup quarterbackWith so many quarterbacks getting injured this year backup QBs have come into play in a big way. What backup QB is best equipped to lead his team to significant wins? Gary Laney of Advance Digital's national desk discusses with Ron Higgins of Nola.com and Joel Erickson of the Alabama Media Group.